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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 77 kiosks
Best kiosks in London
The 10 most notable kiosks in London, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange70 Uxbridge Road
70 Uxbridge Road
68 m from Shepherd's Bush tube station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 3.971, percentile 100 of 77
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange - 1D-3 Ilderton Rd
1D-3 Ilderton Rd
213 m from South Bermondsey railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 3.971, percentile 98.68 of 77
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange123B King St.
123B King St
376 m from Hammersmith (Grove Road) railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 3.971, percentile 97.37 of 77
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange18B Stroud Green Road
18B Stroud Green Road
173 m from Finsbury Park tube station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 3.971, percentile 96.05 of 77
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange25 Broadway
25 Broadway
291 m from Stratford railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 3.971, percentile 94.74 of 77
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange22-24 Albion Street
22-24 Albion Street
180 m from Rotherhithe railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 3.971, percentile 93.42 of 77
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7
KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange155 Lambeth Walk
155 Lambeth Walk
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 3.971, percentile 92.11 of 77
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KeyNest443 Hackney Road
443 Hackney Road
256 m from Cambridge Heath railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 3.971, percentile 90.79 of 77
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange235-239 Wood Ln
235-239 Wood Ln
463 m from St. Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubs railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 3.971, percentile 89.47 of 77
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10
KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange
86A Lillie Road
485 m from West Brompton station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 3.078, percentile 88.16 of 77
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).